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Co-produced by Erwin C. Dietrich (best known for producing a few of the prolific Jess Franco’s better known films and lots of sexy Eurotrash), Mad Foxes is a film that truly has not a single redeeming quality to it. Simply trash for trash’s sake, it’s an absolutely unabashed mixture of sex, violence and naked kickboxing that sadly we’re unlikely
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Shout! Factory, a few years back, gave a domestic release to the Kojak TV movies that Mark Tolch reviewed here. Portions of that review are recycled below.

Who loves ya, baby? From 1973 to 1978, the lollipop-chewing New York City Police Detective Theo Kojak solved crimes in the Big Apple, courtesy of the hit show, Kojak. Though most viewers became familiar with Kojak through the 5 seasons that
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Paul Aratow’s 1974 film Lucifer’s Women tells the story of a renowned author named John Wainwright (Larry Hankin) who, after developing more than a passing interest in Satanism and the occult, has recently published
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In 1964, famed French filmmaker Henri-Georges Clouzot (He of Les Diaboliques and Wages Of Fear to name only two), began work on a film to be entitled L’Enfer (or, in English, Inferno). The production did not go well. Cast members took ill,
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Written and directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, director of Dogtooth and The Lobster, 2017’s The Killing Of A Sacred Deer tells the story of Dr. Steven Murphy (Colin Farrell). He lives a very comfortable
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Eccentric filmmaker Ken Russell’s eccentric 1987 picture Gothic purports to tell the story of the night that Mary Shelley came up with the idea for her classic work, Frankenstein (and Polidori's The Vampyre). Before we get to that, we
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John Goodman headlines Joe Dante's Matinee playing a movie producer named Lawrence Woolsey, a man that runs his business in the grand ‘ballyhoo' tradition of showmen like William Castle (a clear inspiration for the character).
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Set ‘at the dawn of time,’ Umberto Lenzi’s Ironmaster introduces us to Ela (Sam Pasco), a barbarian that runs afoul of a man named Vood (George Eastman). Why is this a problem? Vood has learned how to use fire to create steel and how
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In an all too short career of under six years, character actor Laird Cregar made an indelible impression on film history. From his mentally disturbed police inspector in I WAKE UP SCREAMING to his debonair devil in HEAVEN CAN WAIT to his unforgettable
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2017’s Jigsaw, the first saw movie since 2010’s Saw 3D, opens with a scene where a criminal named Edgar Munsen (Josiah Black) is cornered by police on a rooftop. He’s holding a trigger of some sort in his hand, they assume a detonation device.
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The lesser of Sergio Corbucci’s three most important spaghetti Westerns, 1968’s THE MERCENARY cannot match DJANGO for pure iconic power or the political brilliance of THE GREAT SILENCE. As the third of
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Love On Top, a seventy-six minute film with no opening credits whatsoever, starts off with some footage of ducks before then showing off golfers, horseback riders and tennis players – ahhh…. the life of leisure! Then we head into a townhome where a blonde woman lies in bed with her man. She wants action – she tells him she’s horny – but he’s not in the mood. He even gets up and leaves the room. Pshaw! This makes blondie sad. He heads downstairs to start his day while she goes to the bathroom and showers. Over breakfast she tells Bill that she’s staying at Janice’s this weekend. They talk about her mother, how she’s domineering, then blondie says she’s going to go shopping for her wedding dress. They bicker a bit – they haven’t set a date yet. She jokes about a tall handsome man whisking her away and he threatens her
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I'd have a hell of a time coming up with an answer if I was asked to pigeonhole The Legend of the Holy Drinker into a genre, or even describe the plot effectively. Based on Joseph Roth's 1939 novel of the same name,
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Directed by the late Richard Compton in 1974, Macon County Line takes place twenty years prior in the wilds of Louisiana where we meet Chris Dixon (Alan Vint) and his brother Wayne (Jesse Vint). These two are just about to be shipped
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This 1971 Italian/Spanish directed and co-written by José María Forqué opens with a scene in which a wealthy man named Michel (Tony Kendall) tries to instigate some romance with his lovely wife Ruth (Analía Gadé) to no success.
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After losing his mother to cancer, young Mark Evans (Elijah Wood) finds himself simultaneously grieving the loss and tormenting himself for breaking the promise that he made to her to not let her die. His father, Jack (David
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The Melon Affair, also known as Up Your Alley, Sex Or Bust and Bang Bang The Mafia Gang (which is how it was released by Something Weird Video), opens with literal footage of melons, smashed on a beach. Here we meet Don Marco (Charles Knapp), the Melon Man, the feared and respected leader of ‘La Cosa Nostra.’ We’re told he’s sensitive, cultured and refined but still a man’s man. As he feasts, his cohorts wish him the best and toast him while he grabs his junk and makes some crass jokes. It turns out that Don Marco plans to pass himself off in Hollywood as an Italian filmmaker named Fettuccini. Why? To get in tight with an actress and pass off some stolen jewels for a cool million dollars in cash.
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